/*
 * Copyright 2006 Kevin Wetzels 
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 
 * 
 *       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 
 *       
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 
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 */
package be.roam.drest.xml;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory;

/**
 * Base class for SAX parsers.
 */
public class SaxParser {

    /**
     * Sets up everything needed to parse the given input stream with the given handler and then
     * parses the input stream.
     * 
     * @param inputStream input stream to parse
     * @param handler handler to use for parsing
     * 
     * @throws IOException
     * @throws SAXException
     */
    protected static void parse(InputStream inputStream, DefaultHandler handler) throws IOException, SAXException {
        XMLReader xmlReader = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();
        xmlReader.setContentHandler(handler);
        xmlReader.parse(new InputSource(inputStream));
    }
    
}
